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推荐一篇来自Los Angeles Times的文章：Satire busts a hump People endlessly complain that Hollywood is full of dopey, superficial films bereft of anything new to say. And they’re right. Anyone looking for art that is edgy or relevant — and inspires comment — is turning to Internet video, which has become the true engine driving our pop culture. Nothing demonstrates [...]

这几天回美国很忙。华源科技协会在硅谷开年会，五月二号，Al Gore会来。我作为华源董事，到处给组织做宣传。 说了这么多新媒体的好话，危言耸听，我们来谈谈报纸的优势。优势其实蛮多的，我把它们分成两类。载体本身和媒体。就像我上一篇末说的，我们把焦点集中在人的生理原理上。 一，纸张这个载体。它很轻，能让人用各种姿势拿着看。它的篇幅很大，充分利用了人眼的广角功能，让人一眼能扫描好多大标题，提高吸收新闻的效率。油墨印刷在纸上的对比度适合人眼，长久阅读不疲劳。报纸作为阅读的载体，远远好于一个小小的、硬梆梆、厚重、闪烁发光的显示屏。 二，报纸的编辑远远好过目前网上的编辑，包括目前自动的机器人和基于社区的编辑，像Google News和新上线的MySpace News。编辑的工作是筛选成百上千的新闻（网上是成百万的），决定那些是值得看的，然后组织和排版这些新闻在载体上。很多读者指出，没有经过编辑的新闻是没有意义的，读者没有办法把一百万个blogs一个个看过来；而如果他只订阅几个高质量的话，他很可能错过重要的信息。 Google News，Technorati，Diggs，和MySpace News等等都在起到传统编辑的作用,有的是机器人，有的是用社区的力量(social media)。我觉得他们都走入了误区。他们的假设是：链接最多或大家投票最多的新闻是最值得看的。第二个误区是信息越多越好。我不同意。 我看报纸时，会看很多我本来以为不会看看的文章 。我觉得被动式的阅读是一个人吸收信息的一个很重要的形态。我需要别人对我说：这是你应该知道的信息，虽然这些信息你不一定是你想看的，或不是外人和你的朋友想看的。网络地产的无限是好事，也是坏事。它逼着编辑精挑细选，大大提高了信息的质量。当你把一张报纸看完后会有种满足感，觉得自己完成一件事，而看现在的网络博客与新闻，不会有这种满足感。 我觉得网络媒体要取代报纸，需要更深刻的理解人的阅读需要，需要满足不同的人，不同的时间，不同的场合的生理需要：在书桌前聚精会神时的需要满足，躺在沙发上懒洋洋的需要也要满足。 谈到人的生理需要，做的最好的公司是Nokia和Apple。举一个简单的例子：Apple TV目前不能下载音乐和电影。大家可以用它看和听电脑上现有的东西，但如果你要下载新的东西的话，你需要去书房的电脑上。很多人质疑：既然Apple TV是连网的，要做iTune即时下载的功能是不用吹灰之力的，为什么Apple不做？我相信，这不是Apple的失误。人在客厅或卧室里享受媒体的感觉，和在电脑上查找媒体的感觉是很不一样的。更重要的是，目前用遥控（一个享受的工具）来控制查找和下载（一个聚精会神的工具），是一件不愉快的事情。并且很有可能会把整个界面搞坏，影响目前另外一些目前做的很简单的功能。 （要知道，每加一个功能，它会给目前其它所有的功能带来不便，降低整个系统的可用性。我叫这个现象“Negative Network Effect”。太多的做网站的创业者，只看新功能的好处，忽视了整个系统的可用性，花费很多钱和时间，做了一大堆新功能，却发现用户越来越少了。需要指出的是，这些功能很可能是用户要的，但是用户不可能预见到它要的一个功能对整个系统的影响。用户要什么就给什么的创业者，是不会成功的！） 有点走题了。上一段的东西，很重要，以后专门用一篇写。 说了些报纸的优势。这些优势是短期的。目前科学家在开发可折叠，不反光，超轻薄，带记忆体的e-paper。这个，再加上新一代的网络编辑的出现，我相信在接下来10年里报纸会被新媒体全面超过。我相信我们的下一代长大后不会读报纸。 谁会在这个新媒体的生态体系里赚钱？抓虾，FeedSky应该做什么？下一集再续。

Posted by Sean Cornwell, Senior Product Marketing Manager

I'm just back from running a marathon at the North Pole. It's only by continuously repeating this sentence out loud that the experience has started to become more real. Certainly, when you are at the Pole -- a place of absolute wondrous beauty, isolation, and harshness -- it feels very surreal. The 24-hour light with the sun always at the horizon, the mind-numbing cold, the lack of sleep -- it all gets to you. Wow, don't I make it sound like fun?

So why, you might ask, did I put myself through this?

Well, a friend and I also ran the Sahara marathon at the end of February as a kick start to launch EarthFireIce, a campaign to raise awareness for the importance of individual action to reduce carbon emissions. By racing in such extreme conditions, the hottest and coldest marathons in the world, we also hoped to highlight two regions that stand to be seriously affected by climate change. People can make simple pledges of action on an interactive Google Maps mashup at our campaign site.

We've frequently been asked how we prepare for such extremes. The answer is that it's very hard. We tried to wrap ourselves in plastic wrap to replicate the Sahara heat, and we sat in a Kriotherapy chamber at -130 C (-202 F) to get used to the extreme cold. Neither experience, I must confess, was that useful. The Sahara, at 42 C (approx. 108 F), simply sapped all my energy. And the second half of that run was one of the slowest and most painful in my life. Watch the video of the Sahara run, and me struggling through it:



The North Pole, on the other hand, was tough because you have to wear those ridiculous snowshoes, and because the terrain varies from hard ice to 2 foot deep powder snow. So it's much more of a slow jog, and thus less exhausting. However, the battle there is with the cold: at -30 C (-22 F), you really feel it despite the act of running.

What's next, you may ask? Well, a lot of rest and relaxation, and back to my day job -- and then, some more events under the EarthFireIce banner, hopefully with lots of others joining us!

一.   立刻开始测试，让开发人员看到好处。 二.   打破可用性测试的神秘感。它可不是火箭工程，一次深入测试3、4名用户足矣。 三.   在项目中尽早开始测试，纸模型或许可以帮你节省大量的时间、花费。 四.   在可用性测试进行中包含管理层和利益相关者，邀请他们观察，并在解决问题的过程中也让他们了解到。如果让他们能亲自运用以用户为中心的设计就更好了。 五.   识别你组织中的拥护者，满足他们的需要。由他们推动可用性测试，或许会更好，让项目成员意识到这不仅仅是UX们的工作。 原文链接：Five Techniques for Getting Buy-In for Usability Testing

上次在东南大学演讲，院长说，多说一点过来人的感悟，以及对学生的期望。我于是停下来想了想，准备了一张PPT，叫做“走入社会前，你最好学会的10件事情”，这一张，我讲了一个半小时。

 

最后我说，这些是个人观点，也许和你以前、或以后听到的不完全相同甚至抵触，希望不会给大家造成痛苦。你们今天幸福就幸福在，可以听到完全不同，甚至是矛盾的声音。如果你觉得我说的有道理，并且同时可以不把我说的当回事，你就成熟了。

... 在“靠近我”上更多相关的主题 ...

不接受痛苦，就不会有提高

所有积累，今日无用，明日必有

区别，发生在第三个八小时

保持一定的交际圈，保持一定的阅读量

a web-based baby data visualization tool that tracks the sleep patterns, feeding schedules & diaper habits of a newborn baby over time. the "Baby Tracker" application allows new parents to create detailed records & custom charts of Sleep, Diapers, Bottles, Solids, Nursing, Pumping Activity & Medicine, to better understand the baby's daily patterns & needs. it also allows parents to share that information online with family & friends.

some of the data visualizations include a "sleep propability distribution chart" line-plot, an "awake, transition & asleep time period" chart, a "visual diapers" sparkline graph & a comparative "1 year ago" feature.

P.S. for the hard-core infosthetics fan who even reads this 3rd paragraph, I can reveal that I probably will become a trixie tracker "customer" this August!

[links: trixietracker.com & trixieupdate.com]

作者：雅虎搜索日志小组 4月初，“哈工大-雅虎中国联合实验室”签字与挂牌仪式在哈尔滨工业大学新技术楼举行，这是雅虎首次与国内高校联合成立实验室。 很多人知道雅虎是由斯坦福大学两名博士生杨致远和David Filo在1995年创办的，但你知道雅虎搜索与高校的关系也非常密切吗？ 搜索引擎是目前互联网上最复杂的基础应用之一，涉及信息检索、数据挖掘、多媒体、人工智能、计算机网络、分布式处理、自然语言处理等多领域的理论和技术，属于跨学科应用，与高校之间一直有着紧密的联系。1996年，雅虎搜索技术YST的前身Inktomi公司由美国加州大学伯克莱分校教授Eric Brewer和学生Paul Gauthier创办。2005年7月，雅虎再次与伯克莱分校合作建立研究中心，关注在社会化媒体和移动媒体技术和应用，帮助人们在互联网上进行创作、描述、发现、分享和编辑各种多媒体作品。 美国之外的第一个高校实验室是由雅虎和智利大学工程学院合办，位于智利圣地亚哥的雅虎南美研究院，由著名的信息检索专家Ricardo Baeza-Yates来领导，研究领域包括网络搜索和数据挖掘。此外，Ricardo同时还负责领导雅虎在西班牙巴塞罗那的实验室，同Pompeu Fabra 大学紧密的合作，同样关注在网络搜索和数据挖掘。 此次，哈工大雅虎实验室的成立，不但标志着雅虎将能更深入地了解中国用户的需求，而且能通过哈工大长期在中文语言处理领域的研究实力，为雅虎搜索的市场反应提速。同时，雅虎深厚的技术背景和长期的数据积累，也会为哈工大科技研发项目提供更强的动力。据了解，眼下很多国际知名企业均与国内大学开展了类似合作，但全球顶尖互联网公司在国内建立联合实验室尚属首次。合作过程中，雅虎中国将不定期为学生举行讲座，并为计算机学院学生提供实习机会。同时，双方可以联合实验室的名义向国家申请联合立项。 新实验室将首先在文本聚类、问题搜索等领域开展合作，后期会根据中国搜索用户的最新需求开展更多深层次的项目合作。我们期待着，不久的将来，实验室将为国内广大互联网用户推出更多优秀的中文搜索服务。...

A collection of Concurrent and Highly Scalable Utilities. These are intended as direct replacements for the java.util.* or java.util.concurrent.* collections but with better performance when many CPUs are using the collection concurrently.

a collection of redesigned New York subway maps, obsessivelly created by Eddie Jabbour over a process of many years. the subway lines run parallel to one another, making the map easier to read, if slightly inaccurate. each line is marked with a circle bearing the route’s letter or number, instead of oblong station markers. the map does not have a single line representing all the trains in a “cluster” route, like the 1, 2 & 3 trains in Manhattan. it uses the identical type font throughout, & words travel left to right, rather than diagonally. the lines bend only in 45- & 90-degree angles, to create a gridlike pattern.

see also NY subway smell map & subway-style trend map & animals on the underground & travel time subway map & dynamap & priceless London underground & music underground map.

[links: kickmap.com & nytimes.com|via metafilter.com|thnkx foobario]

While Gmail is a great web mail service, the way it treats attachments might confuse some people.

In Gmail, you can't send executable files (.exe, .cmd) or ZIP archives that contain executables. To bypass this limitation, you need to rename the file and change its extension (don't forget to mention this to the person that receives your mail).

Although Google says you can't send attachments larger than 10 MB, Gmail is quite forgiving and lets you send files up to 13-14 MB, so you don't have to worry about size. If you need to send bigger attachments or you send your files to a lot of people, consider uploading them to a file hosting site (like DivShare, mihd or QuickSharing) and including the URL in the mail. For documents that require collaboration and reviews, Google Docs is a good solution, while Picasa Web and Google Video are better options if you need to share photos and videos.

It's a good idea to select the files you want to attach before writing your email, because Gmail starts to upload them immediately, saving you precious time. If you want to be reminded to attach a file if you talk about attachments in your email, this Greasemonkey script is fairly good. To upload the files using drag and drop, install this Firefox extension.

Now that you sent your message, you may wonder how to retrieve it in the future. To search for emails that contain attachments, use: has:attachment. If you know some words from the title of an attachment or its extension, add them: has:attachment filename:pdf or has:attachment filename:author filename:review. Unfortunately, the only searchable attachments are text files, so you may want to upload a plain text version of your documents if you need to search their content later.

Google offers you the option to view online a lot of file types: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, PDF, RTF and even edit Word and Excel files using Google Docs. This is a simple way to convert all these file types to HTML. You can also listen to MP3 files directly from Gmail.

While Gmail offers plenty of space (almost 3 GB), it's not a very good idea to use it for storing files. There are tools that make it easy to upload files to Gmail (the most well-known are the Firefox extension Gspace and the Windows application Gmail Drive), but Gmail was not created for this purpose, so they're just clever hacks. If you upload too many files, Google could even lock your account for 24 hours.

Posted by Kevin Tom, Google Desktop team

We are happy to be releasing the Google Desktop 5 application in 29 languages, including our first release in Hindi. It's now easier than ever for people around the world to find content on their computer as well as on the web. We've redesigned the look and feel of the sidebar and many of our most popular gadgets. There are also previews for search results and warnings for suspicious websites, whether you're clicking on links from documents, IMs, websites, and more.

No matter which country you're in, we hope that these changes make it easier to quickly and safely find the right information. To learn more about what's new with Desktop 5, read this post on the Google Desktop Blog. And check out the recently-released version for Mac, too.

Michael Nielsen 新推出一个网站：The Academic Reader，值得期待。

The Academic Reader is a new web site that makes it easier to keep track of your scientific reading. Rather than going to multiple websites every day to keep up, we pull all the sources together in a single location, so you can keep track easily. Sources include the preprint arXiv, the Physical Review, and Nature, and many new sources will be added in the months to come, including sources outside physics.

Michael Nielsen 是量子信息与计算领域一年轻大牛，也是很有影响力的科学 blogger，虽然现在不大写了。他推出这个 Academic Reader 让我想起格志之前介绍过的，Dave Bacon 推出 SciRate.com。他们都属于 web savvy 的科学家。

激发人创建科学研究相关 web 应用，也是格志一个梦想。